Sources: BBC
Eight people are killed after people siphoning fuel from a tanker that was involved in an accident explodes in Ondo State, Nigeria. 2023-07-23
Bandits attack villages in the Bakura and Talata Mafura local government areas of Nigeria. Many people are killed. 2022-03-29
Nigerian officials report, as a result of negotiations, Boko Haram has released an estimated 82 schoolgirls who were among about 220 kidnapped from a secondary school in Chibok in Borno State in April 2014. 2017-05-6
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reports Nigeria’s military has quickly buried the corpses of at least 300 Shia Muslims killed during raids at the house of Ibrahim Zakzaky in Zaria earlier in December. 2015-12-24
A bomb attack consistent with Boko Haram kills 50 people in Nigeria's Borno State. 2015-08-11
Voters in Nigeria go to the polls for a general election. Gunmen kill at least 15 voters including an opposition house of assembly candidate for Dukku in Gombe. 2015-03-28
Nigerian troops kill 37 Boko Haram Islamist militants in air and ground strikes in their bases in the northeast. 2013-10-22
A court in South Africa sentences Nigerian militant Henry Okah to 24 years' imprisonment for his involvement in the Abuja car bombings which killed at least 12 people in October 2010. 2013-03-26
Five people are injured in a bomb explosion near a church in Suleja, Nigeria. 2012-02-19
The Nigerian government asks that criminal charges against Nuhu Ribadu be withdrawn. 2010-04-1